Short description
This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.
Long description
Biko is a huge figure in the history of African politics and international black studies generally. This collection brings fresh perspectives from leading scholars around the world.This volume launches our high-profile Contemporary Black History series, co-edited by Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph.This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.
Review
Taken as a whole, this collection of essays is an important addition to the scholarship on Steve Biko. It contributes not only to a deeper understanding of what philosophy is, but also how Biko's writing can be considered philosophical. --Martin Murray, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton I never thought I would read anything like this that reminded me of the 'good old days' when we were giddy with hopes and enthusiasm for recreating our own world! Biko Lives! will ruffle many feathers. People who have been trying to 'program' the forward movement of history and human development are going to have to think again.
--Bokwe Mafuna, former journalist, founding organizer of the Black Workers' Project, and friend of Steve Biko's
Table of contents
- PART I: PHILOSOPHIC DIALOGUES
- Biko: African Existentialist Philosophy
- M. P. More
- Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko
- L. Turner
- A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness
- L. R. Gordon
- Biko and the Problematic of Presence
- F. Wilderson
- May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's Challenge to Religion
- T. Sam Maluleke
- PART II: CONTESTED HISTORIES AND INTELLECTUAL TRAJECTORIES
- Black Consciousness after Biko: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987
- N. C. Gibson
- An Illuminating Moment: Background to the Azanian Manifesto
- N. Alexander
- Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa
- N. Ally and S. Ally
- PART III: CULTURAL CRITIQUE AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER
- The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa/Azania
- M. wa Bofelo
- A Human Face: Biko's Conceptions of African Culture and Huamism
- A. Oliphant
- Re-membering Biko For The Here And Now
- A. Veriava and P. Naidoo
- Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa
- P. Dineo Gqola
- The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980
- M. J. Oshadi Mangena
- PART IV: MEMORY AND COUNTER-MEMORY
- Interview with Strini Moodley
- N. Klein, A. Desai, and A.Lewis
- Interview with Lybon Mabas
- A. Mngxitama and A. Alexander
- Interview with Deborah Matshoba
- A. Alexander and A. Mngxitama.